Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Potting Shed Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The second saga of Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, the debut novel by Ann Hazelwood, you got to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs are as familiar as your own. In this follow-up book, Anne and her fiancé, Sam, start house-hunting, or is that haunting? Once again, a quilt holds keys and clues to important family secrets, but whose family is it this time? And why would anyone hide a quilt in a potting shed? Life continues apace for Anne’s family and friends, too. Share in their joys and sorrows as Colebridge goes about every community’s business.
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Social worker Billy Jo and detective Mark Friessen have nothing in common — except their commitment to protecting the innocent at all costs on a secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems…
The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. This box set collection includes Nothing as it Seems, Hiding in Plain Sight and The Cold Case
Standing by the Wall Collection
by Mick Herron
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall.
Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger–winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched information transfer, Herron’s novellas capture the drama, humor, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft, a world rife with both legends and secrets, where thrill-seeking and loneliness are ubiquitous and deadly, and where the lines between friends, enemies, and lovers are perpetually blurred by circumstance and subterfuge.
SO WE LIE
by Willow Rose
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This book kept me guessing, and I couldn’t put it down. It held me glued to the pages until the surprising end!– Goodreads reviewer
What do we do when the truth hurts too much?
Fresh out of the national academy – mother of two – FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s breath-taking mystery.
When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward.
The Old Scrapbook
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Old Scrapbook is real. The characters within its pages were real as well. This story is an attempt to fill in the blanks of their actual relationship. Bet and Ray met, fell in love, and got engaged until a war separated them, World War II.
Seventy years later, the old scrapbook was found, and the mysteries involved rediscovered.
I became obsessed with the scrapbook and what could have become of the young woman, Bet, who created it. I felt that woman was somehow guiding me as I wrote the story. That’s how I felt from the beginning, like I was led to that war-time scrapbook by an unseeing hand that I could feel something from its pages.
The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle
by Shuler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A South Carolina police investigator’s account of solving a thirty-seven-year-old murder—includes photos.
For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case, but it remained the department’s top cold case for thirty-seven years. However, Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn’t let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001.
The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition
by Robert W. Chambers
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A beautiful gift edition of the cult classic work of supernatural horror and weird fiction, which inspired H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the first season of True Detective
The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow.
These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P Lovecraft to the creators of HBO’s True Detective.
The Dragon King
by R. A. Salvatore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times–bestselling fantasy trilogy from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do’Urden.
Luthien Bedwyr, warrior leader of an elven rebellion and crusader for justice known as the Crimson Shadow, will not rest until he vanquishes the evil Wizard-King Greensparrow forever and wipes out the tyrant’s cyclopean army. No less than the fate of Luthien’s oppressed kingdom of Eriador hangs in the balance.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe
by Jean Grainger
Rating: 4.5 #ad
My twelve-year-old daughter frequently moans that Ballycarrick is the most boring town in Ireland. Nothing ever happens here. She’s right. And as the local police sergeant, this is something I’m delighted about.
I’ve enough to worry about – the polar ice-caps, the evil monster that’s shrinking my trousers, not to mention the hot flushes – without having to be like one of those gritty Netflix cops, chasing criminals down alleyways and busting drug deals. So, life is calm and fairly predictable.
Blood Gold in the Congo
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.5 #ad
If you like Michael Michael Crichton’s novels you’ll enjoy Blood Gold in the Congo … Inspired by true events.
“This is an outstanding read and simply a wonderful action/adventure story.” – Reader’s Favorite
When twelve-year-old Congolese boy, Joseph Muamba, is sold to a wealthy American family he wants to die.
Eventually, he comes to love the family and lives the life of the all-American boy. However, he cannot rid himself of a nagging feeling that he has a greater calling in life…
Fantasy in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, is found in his locked private playroom, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. Despite his violent end, Eve can’t find anyone – girlfriend and business partners included – who seemed to have a problem with the enthusiastic, high-spirited millionaire.
Of course gaming, like any business, has its fierce rivalries and dirty tricks – as Eve’s husband, Roarke, one of U-Play’s competitors, knows well. But Minnock was not naïve, and he knew how to fight back in the real world as well as the virtual one.
On the Line
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he’s about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant’s kitchen – and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room.
If it weren’t for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and Mateo and his family undergo a battery of genetic tests. Yet the answers that start to emerge only raise more questions.
King’s Fall
by Evan Currie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Empire has suffered the existence of their enemies for too long as it is, and her Majesty has determined to put an end to the impudent defiance, the consequences be damned.
Eric Weston has seen this coming, but without being able to find a way to avoid it, all he could do was prepare… along with the rest of the Earth. With several Imperial Fleets coming down on their heads, all the stops have been pulled and there are no more rules of engagement. Everything is on the table, but for all that, Eric knows it won’t… it can’t… be enough.
Down in the Hollow
by Timothy Hobbs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It all begins with a decapitated head found at the bottom of a dark well. Bertram Stone is a former Texas Ranger running from the changes of an ever-evolving world. Horses were being replaced by cars. Laws were changing how Bertram could deal justice. Wanting to live out his golden years in peace, Stone flees to the quiet town of Hamilton, Texas where he becomes the local sheriff. In a small town where the law rarely needs enforcing, everything is going according to his plan.
Until a great evil plunges Hamilton into horror. On the outskirts of town, in a small community called Deer Hollow, there is a ramshackle cabin where a man lives by the name of Eli Snow. He is a recluse, living away from other people.
The Surrogate Mother
by Freida McFadden
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abby wants a baby more than anything.
But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby’s dreams come true.
But it turns out Monica isn’t who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby’s child has an unspeakable secret.
And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Red Bounty
by J.N. Chaney
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Van left his old life behind, but some things remain the same. Even in space, crime still exists.
After taking a Peacemaker job to find missing fuel, Perry finds something far more sinister than simple theft – a voice, crying out in a forge of heat and flame, and the discovery reveals a series of acts so vicious that nothing short of revenge will suffice.
Following leads across the stars, Van, Perry, and Torina discover the wealthy elite are doing more than just taking fuel. They’re stealing lives.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
English After-Doom Tea
by Erin Johnson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A small English town. An enchanted tea room. A murder at a horse race. Can this newbie witch and her vampire friends catch the killer?
Minnie Wells, here! I was hoping for a fun weekend at the biggest horse races in England. But instead, I discover the body of an infamous horse trainer, murdered in the stables!
Now I’ve got to team up with my sassy black cat familiar to catch the killer, and clear the track’s veterinarian of the bogus charges against him.
The British Military Quartet
by Mike Lunnon-Wood
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four gripping thrillers in one must-read box set:
Let Not The Deep,
King’s Shilling,
Long Reach
Congo Blue.
If you like TOM CLANCY, FREDERICK FORSYTH, ANDY MCNAB OR DANIEL SILVA, then you’ll love MIKE LUNNON-WOOD.
The Dead Lake
by Robin Mahle
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two bodies. One Spring Break. And a school full of kids who won’t talk.
The bodies of two high school students are found floating in an icy lake, both showing signs that these were no accidental drownings.
The school is the first place to start asking questions, but Bangor Police Detective Rebecca Ellis and her partner, Detective Bryce Pelletier, hit a wall of silence when they try talking to the victims’ classmates.
The Ghostly Quilts on Main
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“A light, fun read . . . Hazelwood does a great job of keeping your interest as you wonder what each ghost might do. Her characters are well developed.” – Journal-Advocate
In this fifth novel of the Colebridge Community Series, busy flower shop owner Anne Brown Dickson takes on the task of helping fellow shop owners on Main Street. A unique quilt show develops that impacts the street throughout the fall and winter season. In the process, Anne is reluctantly assisted by a host of ghostly participants. On the home front, Grandmother initiates some activities of her own that may reap some harmful results. All is not gloom and doom, however, as Anne makes changes to her business and best friend, Nancy, has some upcoming changes of her own.
The Killing Edge
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a party at a Florida beachside mansion turned into a bloodbath. According to authorities, the killers were later found dead in the swamp. Chloe’s not so sure.
Ten years later, as a psychologist consulting with the cops, she gets drawn into the disappearance of a swimsuit model. Everyone assumes the girl ran off for some fun in the sun—everyone but Chloe, who’s been visited by the model’s ghost.
Wizard’s First Rule
by Terry Goodkind
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Terry Goodkind’s debut novel, Wizard’s First Rule, was a phenomenon from the moment it was first published by Tor Books in 1994. In it, readers are drawn into the magical New World, where ordinary Westland forest guide Richard Cypher accepts his extraordinary destiny. As a Seeker of Truth, Richard is the only one who can stop the tyrannical wizard Darken Rahl from seizing the all-powerful Boxes of Orden.
When the beautiful and mysterious Kahlan Amnell appears in Richard’s forest seeking help, his humble world is turned on its head. After proving that he can wield the Sword of Truth, Richard knows that a confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.
Maybe You Should Give Up
by Byron Morrison
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Byron Morrison knows exactly how frustrating it can be to feel like you’re your own worst enemy. For years he’d sabotage everything from his health to his relationships and his professional success. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to change, if anything, he knew exactly what he needed to do to create the life he wanted. Yet he’d get stuck in a never-ending cycle of making some progress, only to then lose motivation, fall off track or do something that would undo all his hard work.
Eventually, he had enough, and he committed to figuring out what was actually going on. In doing so, he discovered that the biggest barrier in the way of his success…was himself. It was the sabotaging voice that caused him to overthink and doubt himself. All his thoughts and fears that kept him trapped in his own head. His patterns and behaviors that kept him stuck.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
When Did We Lose Sylvia?
by Vera Day
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Southern humor, faith, and murder intersect in the tiny town of Tulip, Texas.
Betty Bell is a famous poet, or at least a local celebrity, in the tiny town of Tulip, Texas. Gossip runs amok when a Goth teenager, Sylvia Smith, and her elderly grandfather arrive. Even worse, they’ve moved into the creepy, old Sanchez place on the outskirts of town.
Betty volunteers to teach a summer poetry class to restless Tulip teens. Soon, the kids are expressing themselves in stellar stanzas and heart-rending rhymes. But what was supposed to be a summer of ministering to the teens becomes a season of sleuthing when one of Betty’s students, the spooky Sylvia, goes missing.
THE GIRLS IN THE CABIN
by CALEB STEPHENS
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A dad will do anything to keep his daughters safe. But the phone lines are down. The roads are blocked. And the woman in the cabin is hiding a terrible secret . . .
This camping trip is Chris’s last chance to repair his relationship with his daughters, Kayla and Emma. Nothing’s been the same since they lost their mom. But things go wrong as soon as they get to the mountains.
When they make camp, nine-year-old Emma runs off into the woods. By the time they find her, there’s a snowstorm rolling in. And Emma’s leg is badly broken. They need to find shelter, fast…
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Novum Albion had been the melting pot of the world, where cultures, intellect, ideas, and even freedom defined the young nation. Yet, many no longer had the hope that once defined Novum Albion. Sadly, inspiration and confidence drained from the land. Hope became nothing more than feeble happiness, and happiness turned to selfish desires. Selfish desires turned to greed, and greed turned into numbness to life. Many citizens of Novum Albion were trapped in their own minds, yet they were still filled with pride, though they accomplished nothing.
As the young of the land grew ignorant of their identity and their past, the very fiber of the home started to unwind, and uncertainty and ignorance in every aspect of life began to grow. Thus Lapidius, a martial institute for children, found a place among the offspring of the compromised nation. And though it would be hard for some to think a school could be home for its students, it was just that for many.
Sex Crimes
by Alice Vachss
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sequel plus original:
After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to “go along to get along,” Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as “a stark, passionate closing argument in [her] broader case against the criminal justice system” by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year. Nick (Goodfellas) Pileggi called it “the single best book about prosecuting sex crimes in America, period.” Now, twenty years later, Alice Vachss becomes Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in a new environment … on the opposite coast, in a small rural community. And asks the critical question: What has changed?
A Strike to the Heart
by Danielle Grandinetti
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s fiercely independent. He’s determined to protect her.
Wisconsin, 1933 – When a routine mission becomes an ambush that kills his team, Craft Agency sniper Miles Wright determines to find the persons responsible and protect the woman he rescued. But the fierce independence that led Lily Moore to leave her family’s dairy business for the solitary life of a dog trainer and the isolation of her farm don’t make that easy. Neither does his unwanted attraction to her. Meanwhile, escalating incidents confirm that she’s far from safe.
Lily fears letting the surprisingly gentle retired marine into her life almost as much as she fears whoever is threatening her. As Wisconsin farmers edge toward another milk strike, one that will surely turn violent, it becomes clear that the plot against Lily may be part of a much larger conspiracy.
Serpent Dominion
by Christopher Mitchell
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Lahnos Laimos is not ashamed of his horns.
For refusing to file them down, Lahnos is cast out by his family and expelled from his home in the mountain village where he was born.
The horns reveal a dark secret, that Lahnos shares his ancestry with the Bullan – the feared and loathed soldiers occupying the Serpent Isle. When the Island rebels against the ruling Dragon Dominion, Lahnos has a choice to make – fight for a homeland that hates him, or sit back and watch the Serpent Isle burn?
When Things Get Dark
by Multiple AUthors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers.
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more.
A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.
Chronicles of Winland Underwood Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Winland Underwood has been running and hiding most of her life. Today is the day she will stop and stand her ground. Can she protect the magical refugees while searching for her mother? What other challenges await the Fixer’s daughter?
Grab the Chronicles of Winland Underwood Complete Series Boxed Set today to find out!
She’s no stranger to running and hiding but she’s used to doing it alone. Winland Underwood, daughter to the legendary “Fixer”, has seen her fair share of magical mayhem. She’s just never wanted to be a part of it.
But when a group of magical refugees needs her help, she’s finding it hard to say no. This half Light Elf and half Witch has her work cut out for her. How do you hide a whole group of people in plain sight?
The Dead Woman of Deptford
by Ann Granger
Rating: 4.3 #ad
On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed, middle-aged woman can be found. Even Jeb Fisher, the local rag-and-bone man, swears he’s seen nothing.
Meanwhile, Ben’s wife Lizzie is trying to suppress a scandal: family friend Edgar Wellings has a gambling addiction and no means of repaying his debts. Reluctantly, Lizzie agrees to visit his debt collector’s house in Deptford, but when she arrives she finds her husband is investigating the murder of the woman in question.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did – that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
The Summer We Fell in Love
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Rating: 5.0 #ad
He reached for her hand, never quite making contact. “But beneath all the mess, it’s a love story.”
One phone call, one softly spoken nickname, takes Poppy back twenty-four years when she was an eighteen-year-old finding her own way.
With an old camper and plans for a better future than living with an alcoholic, bitter mother, Poppy sells her jewelry by the side of the road. Those plans are tossed upside-down when she meets Silas, a charming, carefree guy who only has his sights on the moment, not the future. Together, they face their first summer as adults, and Poppy has to decide whether she wants to follow her dreams… or her heart.